Chapter 29

Translator: mangoes

“……Are you possibly making a fuss because you’re trying to change my door lock password to be your birthday?”

In my opinion, it was a question meant to tell him that he should be ashamed of himself, but Shin Heejae replied brazenly as if he was waiting for that.

“No? But, if noona wants to change it, I’ll tell you.”

“…….”

After that, he didn’t say anything. But that didn’t mean he hung up, either.

I didn’t want to do what he wanted me to do just as much as I could see how obvious his intentions were, but I was afraid of the consequences of ignoring him here. It was my first time like this where I had to ask when I wasn’t curious, and didn’t want to know.

I bit down on my molars hard and asked him.

“Your……. birthday, when is it…….”

“August 25th.”

“…….”

“Easy to remember, right?”

That probably means that I should memorize it.

Will Shin Heejae still be like this with me even then? While estimating the remaining months, I chewed on my lips.

“But, even when noona got your birthday present, it seemed that you didn’t ask me about my birthday?”

“…….”

Because I really wasn’t interested in that. And when Shin Heejae took care of me during my birthday I was grateful, but there was also a feeling of being burdened. If you looked at it another way it was like I received the gift then pretended it never happened,so do I have to apologize again for even that?

“2580* If you press one line vertically it works.”

In order to change the subject as if I didn’t hear anything, I called out my house’s front door password.

“…….”

As soon as I did that, I faintly heard a squeak over the phone.

I was slightly concerned as it turned out that he was already in front of my house, but soon it was time to go back into the department and as I thought further, there was nothing valuable at home for me to be scared of Shin Heejae robbing.

“If something disappears, I’ll report it immediately…….”

Tuk―.

And the moment I was about to threaten him perfunctorily, I furrowed my eyebrows at the phone that was cut off.

“What is this, you bastard…….”

Looking at Shin Heejae’s number left on the screen, my mood rapidly dropped. While talking on the phone all this time, Shin Heejae had never ended the call first. From what I remember, this was the first time.

“…….”

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[Me]

[hey what are u doing]

[what are you doing ㅡㅡ]

[you’re not smashing anything, are you? ]

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[Me]

[ㅡㅡ?]

[leaving me on read??]

[hey did you possibly go to the landlady’s house?]

[calling the police, thanks for your hard work]

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Eventually, after leaving work 30 minutes early using the excuse of working outside the office, for the first time since joining the company, I raced home by taxi.

“Huff, huff…….”

But, when I got to the front of my house, something was weird.

It was because the gate was wide open and a couple of large boxes were stacked in front of the front door. With my eyes wide open, I slowly went down the stairs step by step and looked into the house.

“……What is this?”

And I found 3 large moving boxes left on one side of the narrow kitchen.

Next to that, Shin Heejae was standing in a different outfit than yesterday, unpacking the box. He looked puzzled when he saw me.

“Noona, are you done with work already?”

That calm manner had too big of a feeling of incompatibility that even though it was my house, I hesitated in front of the door, then asked him.

“……What are you doing right now?”

“Organizing my luggage.”

“What is this?”

“My clothes and laptop. I brought just these in a hurry.”

“What……?”

I rubbed my eyes several times because I couldn’t believe that Shin Heejae, as if it was nothing, had moved his luggage to my house.

However, even while I was standing stunned, Shin Heejae flung open thefelt hangerwithout hesitation and began to hang his clothes one by one in the empty spaces.

I blankly stood there blinking my eyes, then ran into the house without taking off my shoes. And I hurriedly grabbed his forearm that held about 10 hangers.

“Why are you hanging your clothes there!”

“Huh? Why?”

“My……, it’s my house!”

Even though I said something so obvious, perhaps because of my relationship with him, I felt intimidated seeing Shin Heejae’s absentminded expression.

Shin Heejae stared down at me, who was stuttering, and smirked.He then replied with a mocking face.

“Who said it’s mine? I won’t take it even if you give it to me.”

“What…….”

Shin Heejae looked at my creased expression in response to those insensitive words as if it was interesting. It seemed as if he was looking forward to me being angry.

“You……!”

I was going to grab Shin Heejae by the collar, but clenched and withdrew my fist. It was because as I looked at his form that seemed to be purposefully testing me to hit him, I had a thought that it was a trap.

I glared at him while calming my anger.

“Here, two people can’t live together. If we’re kicked out, are you going to take responsibility.”

What I had just said was not a lie. When I got this house, the landlady requested to not raise animals here, and if I ended up living with someone else, to pay more monthly rent.

But even after hearing that, Shin Heejae picked his ears and indifferently replied.

“Really? She didn’t mention it.”

“……What?”

“When I was moving my luggage she came to see me? So I told her I was going to live with noona from now on.”

“This kind of shit…….”

I got angry at both the landlady, who became very generous only to Shin Heejae, and that guy’s handsome face.

Shin Heejae giggled and laughed at my face turning red and blue. Finally, he put the last box in an empty space above the closet and looked back at me.

“Noona, you’re actually happy that I came. Aren’t you?”

I knew this question was a trap. Shin Heejae was doing this on purpose right now. There was no way he didn’t know that I was really angry, so there was no way that he was digging at me with good intentions.

Nevertheless, I couldn’t hide my distorted expression from irritation. If you were me, would you be happy? A large bastard is saying he’ll stick to this one booger-sized house!

But it was clear that if I found even a little bit of fault with this, he would bother me more. I gritted my teeth and said as much as I could indirectly.

“……During……, that’s a little…… Don’t you think it’s too early?”

“Noona is unexpectedly conservative.”

“Common sense……, probably.”

“Do people with common sense dress up as women and date men?”

“Shit,when did I dress up as a woman! You were the one who kept calling noona, noona and mistook me as a woman!”

But my composure did not even last 5 seconds.

I was tired of continuously dragging my netkama history along whenever I said something. Eventually, I couldn’t stand it and grabbed him by the collar, but rather than pulling him down, it ended up looking like I was hanging on.

Without blinking an eye, Shin Heejae looked at me sticking to him. For a moment it seemed like a cold smile passed by his face, but soon that expression disappeared as if it had been washed away.

Shin Heejae pulled me, who slowed down and was trying to back down, into his arms. I was surprised and tried to get out of his arms, but Shin Heejae’s head falling on my shoulders was faster.

Then a despicable voice rang in my ear.

“Noona, are you angry? It was a joke.”

“…….”

Soft and light brown hair tickled my neck and chin, and he entangled me as if he was behaving like a child. Then with a silent smile, he held my face with both hands.

I got goosebumps and was uncomfortable in ‘this position’ so I quickly kicked him in the shin. Even though frowning, Shin Heejae stepped back this time. It was as if he was trying to lower my guard.

But soon he looked me up and down and tsked.He cocked his eyebrow,but his gaze stuck to me and didn’t fall away.

He stared at me for a few seconds like that and opened his mouth.

“Noona being this sensitive……, just by looking at it…….”

“What?”

“You must be hungry. Right?”

“What kind of…….”

I said that, but my stomach that had crazily ran here the moment I got off work was honest. It was because as soon as I heard that I looked hungry, my stomach felt a sharp poking pain.

Shin Heejae looked at my unpleasant face and made an expression that he understood, then tapped on the screen of his cell phone.

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“Is it not tasty?”

As I ate black beannoodleswith Shin Heejae with atablein between, like last time, I felt reality hit.

‘If you were me, would you have an appetite?’

I stared at Shin Heejae.

‘Seriously, until when do I have to be like this with this bastard?’

In fact, I was receiving a lot of stress from Shin Heejae’s existence itself. And this time, of this guy moving his belongings to my house as he pleased, among what I’ve experienced in my life, it was the second worst thing placed after being born.

But the bigger problem is that this forced cohabitation happened only two days after I actually met Shin Heejae in real life.

‘In about 2 weeks, I might be found as a dead body…….’

Looking at the puffed cheeks of the man chewing black bean noodles,I had a thought that what he was chewing now was like my energy.

‘After getting involved with this guy, there’s nothing that’s working.”

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